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NI Motion Software Selection

National Instruments offers motion control software products for rapidly creating programs in National Instruments LabVIEW, C, or Visual Basic with centralized (plug-in) or distributed motion controllers. Prototype your motion application and convert your project into ready-to-run NI LabVIEW or C code with NI Motion Assistant. Create custom motion controllers in LabVIEW with the NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW. Connect to CANopen or IEEE 1394-based intelligent drives with the NI SoftMotion Controller.

Motion Software


  NI-Motion for LabVIEW, C, and Visual Basic NI Motion Assistant for Interactive Prototyping
 
Description Driver software that comes with NI centralized (plug-in) and distributed motion control hardware. Includes NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) and easy-to-use API for motion control. Features utilities for axis configuration, testing, tuning, and example programs for NI LabVIEW, C, and Visual Basic. Interactive 3D environment to rapidly prototype and deploy your motion application by converting your project into ready-to-run NI LabVIEW VIs or C code with NI-Motion functions. Helps you incorporate blending, coordinated linear, circular, point-to-point, smart contouring, and vector-space control.

  NI SoftMotion Controller for CANopen and IEEE 1394 Distributed Drives Custom Controllers with NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW
 
Description Soft motion interface between NI-Motion driver software and IEEE 1394 or CANopen distributed intelligent drives. Program IEEE 1394-based ServoWire SM drives from ORMEC or CANopen-based Accelnet and Xenus drives from Copley with the easy-to-use NI-Motion API in NI LabVIEW, C, or Visual Basic. Software to help you create custom motion controllers for better machine performance and to implement advanced control algorithms for motion control. Includes functions for trajectory generation, spline interpolation, position and velocity PID control, and encoder implementation on LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA.